Competences of university students in the digital age: new teaching challenges.

Abstract

It discusses about some necessary competences in college students in order to meet the requirements of the current academic world from the perspective of Information Science, raising informational and digital competences as essential for development in the information society.
From Information Science theoretical approach, characteristics of the current society and the role of the information as an input of vital importance for the individuals and the social groups are analyzed. Through a methodology of bibliographical analysis, skills and abilities are explained that cover each competition. For the purposes of the analysis, the digital competences are divided into: technical-instrumental and analytical-rational. In parallel, the information competences involved in college life are developed, as well as the competences necessary for reading images and reading in virtual environments as constants in the academic space of today. As a result, a systematization of the necessary skills and abilities for the development of individuals in the
academic world is offered, taking into account the elements introduced by the digital era in the transmission and knowledge generation spaces.